Assistant should illuminate EC that Adwoa Safo's seat is empty - Privileges Committee
Executive of Parliament's Privileges Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu says the Clerk of Parliament is expected to illuminate the Electoral Commission that the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency seat is empty.
This, Mr. Osei-Owusu says, is the end arrived at by the Committee after it heard two of the three NPP administrators who had absented themselves from Parliament for in excess of 15 sequential sittings.
He spread the word about this for JoyNews' Emefa Apawu on Thursday, July 14.
Article 97 of Ghana's Constitution shows that an individual from Parliament will empty his seat assuming he is missing for fifteen sittings without the consent of the Speaker and he can't offer a sensible clarification to the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges.
Residency OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS
1. A Member of Parliament will empty his seat in Parliament.
c. assuming that he is missing, without the consent recorded as a hard copy of the Speaker and he can't offer a sensible clarification to the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges from fifteen sittings of a gathering of Parliament during any period that Parliament has been brought to meet and keeps on gathering."
The Bekwai MP made sense of that this arrangement kicked at the time the MP neglected to appear at the greeting of the Committee to make sense of her nonappearance during its gathering.
"As per the law, it is for the Clerk to illuminate the Electoral Commission that an opening has happened, that is the thing the Constitution says, that is the very thing that our report reflects."
He made sense of that the Committee utilized each mean to advise her regarding the need to appear and make sense of her nonappearance. Her inability to appear, he proceeded, implies she has consequently cleared the seat.
The Committee has in the mean time, by a greater part choice, casted a ballot to 'exculpate' Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong and Ayawaso Central MP, Henry Quartey who both absented themselves from Parliament for in excess of 15 successive sittings last year.
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